Vegetation-burner for railroad-tracks, &amp;c.



No. 66l,846. v Patented Nov. l3, I900.

' C. BURKE & J. TOOLE.

VEGETATION BURNER FOR RAILRQAD TRACKS, 8w. (Application filed Aug. 7, 1900.)

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No. '66I,846. Patented Nov. I3, I900.

' C.-BURKE & J. TUULE.

VEGETATIONBURNER FOR RAILROAD TRACKS, 81.0.

(Application filed Aug. '7, 1900.)

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ten STATES CORNELIUS BURKE AND JOHN TOOLE, OF MONROE, LOUISIANA.

\lEGETATlON-BURNER FOR RAILROAD-TRACKS, 84,0.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 661,846, dated November 13, 1900.

Application filed August 7, 1900. Serial No. 26.137. (No model.)

To all whom it nuty concern:

Be it known that yve, CORNELIUS BURKE and JOHN TOOLE, both citizens of the United States and residents of Monroe, in the parish of Ouachita and State of Louisiana, have invented a new and Improved Vegetation- Burner for Railroad-Tracks, &c., of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved vegetation-burner for railroad-tracks and like places and which is simple and durable in construction, very efiective in operation, more especially designed for use on a push or flat car adapted to run on a railroad-track, and arranged to permit the operator to raise or lower a continuous flame, according to the nature of the grass or weeds to be destroyed by burning.

The invention consists of novel features and parts and combinations of the same, as will be fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claims.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improvement as applied. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a rear end elevation of the same, and Fig. 418 an enlarged sectional side elevation of the burner.

The improved device is mounted on a push or flat car A, of any approved construction, and supporting on its body on opposite sides posts B, on which are fulcrumed lover's G, extending rearwardly, to carry at their rear ends a transversely-extending tube D forsupplying liquid fuel to the burner-pipes E, depending from the tube D and reaching with their lower contracted ends E to the grass, weeds, or other vegetation to be destroyed on the railroad-track. On the free ends of the levers O are arranged depending arms 0, connected with each other by a cross-bar 0 forming a guide for the lower portions of the burner-pipes E to hold the same in place, as will be readily understood by reference to Fig. 3. The levers O between the fulcrum ends and the tube D are provided with swivelnuts F, engaged by vertically-disposed screwrods G, mounted to turn in suitable bearings G on the body of the car A, so that when the operator turns the handwheel G on a screwrod G then the nut E travels up or down, according to the direction in which the hand- Wheel G2 is turned, to impart an up anddown swinging movement to the corresponding lever 0. Thus by turning both screwrods the levers O can be swung up or down to raise or lower the burners accordingly, as required by the nature of the grass or weeds to be destroyed. The tube D is connected by a flexible pipe or hose H with a fixed pipe H, having a valve H and opening into the lower end of a reservoir I, containing the liquid fuel and located on the body of the car A. An air-pipe J leads to the top of the reservoir I and is connected with a pump J under the control of theoperator and likewise located on the body of the car. Thus by pumping air into the reservoir the liquid fuel therein is forced through the pipe H and hose H into the tube D and from the latter into the burner-pipes E to issue out of the contracted ends thereof and be ignited thereon, and thereby burn and destroy the grass or weeds on the railroad-track.

By the arrangement described a transverse sheet of flame is produced by the several burner-pipes, and as this sheet of flame can be raised or lowered it is evident that high or low weeds or grass can be readily destroyed when the car is moved forward and the fuel is burning at the contracted ends E of the pipes E.

The whole arrangement is very simple and durable in construction and can be readily manipulated by the operator to insure the desired result.

Having thus fully described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In a vegetation burner for railroadtraoks, the combination with a truck, of levers fulcrumed on the truck and extending rearwardly beyond the end of the truck, said levers being provided with nuts between their ends, screw-rods mounted on the truck. and engaging the nuts of the levers, a tube carried by the outer ends of the lovers, and burner-pipes depending from the tube, substantially as described.

2. In a vegetation burner for railroad tracks, the combination with a truck, of levers fulcrumed on the truck and extending rearwardly beyond the end of the truck, said levers being provided with swiveled nuts be tween their ends, screw-rods mounted on the truck and engaging the nuts of the levers, a tube carried by the outer ends of the levers, burner-pipes depending. from the tube, and arms depending from the outer endsof the levers and connected together bya cross-bar forming a guide for the burner-pipes, substantially as described.

3. A vegetation-burner,comprising a truck, a liquid-fuel reservoir on the truck, an airpump connected with the reservoir for forcing the liquid fuel from the same, levers pivoted to the truck and extending beyondthe end of the same, said levers being provided with nuts between their ends, screw rods mounted on the truck and engaging the nuts of the levers, a transversely-extending tube carried at the outer ends of the levers, burnerpipe s depending from the tube, a valved connection between the tube and the reservoir, and a guide for the burner-pipes carried by the levers, substantially as herein shown and described.

In testimony whereof We have signed our names. to this specification in the presence of go 

